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    Harbour Today

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    1 thing i found out was my temp reading is 2deg.out we were reading 15.3 in mh and a passing down rigger said we had 17.3 bugger

    anyway i'm thinking off longy tomorrow

    cherrs gary

    Hi Gary dont feel bad we hit rosville at 430 got lives and down rigged for most of the morning for zip, then got on the soft plastics for litte trevs and some sargent bakers.

    better luck next time.

    Cheers Clifford

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    Thanks for all the replys bad shame about this weekend, we heard about wind warnings when we were out on wed my mate paul was pissed for sat but that is the way it goes anyway hope next weekend is better.

    Cheers clifford

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    top stuff,good to hear theres some fish out there,ive been hanging to get out but the weathers against me on weekends ,did you hear of any fin geting caught

    cheers arman

    hi Arman did not hear alot on the radio, there were only a few boats out we could see but the nubers were thick and there were some bigger one under the boat but we did not want to chance hooking up any more as alot of them took the hooks right down there throats.

    cheers Clifford

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    hi to all just a quik report hit the ramp at 530 with good mate jack made our way out to browns, got a couple of stripies on the way set our trail down about 8 with in half an hour i said to jack im on 2 sec later so was he but when we boated the fin found it to be a gready little basterd took both of our hooks so not realy double hook up :074: . About an hour jack was on again this time it was a 9kg albacor about a nother half an hour we got our double hook up another 2 albacor then it just started to go off we had then on the sounder every where as we put the bait in the water it got hit, By about 1230 we had hit our bag limit and were throwing them back. The trip in was a blast no chop and very little swell great day.

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    Good day out Clifford.. well done... did you pull the fish on BRowns, or were you a little off? We're heading out tomorrow for a dash..

    cheers steve

    steve we were 3 miles before browns then driffted across the front of the mountain. Alot of boats out there today just have to get away from the numbers.

    cheers Clifford

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    Hi to all just a quick report headed out about 6 to get out nice and early, hit the shelf about 730 and started the trail about 2 hours in we hit our first fin then followed with a double hook up it was all on.

    Great to get my first worthey fish for the saltega :thumbup: this keept up for about 2 hours with the biggest fish landed with tld 30 we estimated 30 kg by 12 we were heading in with 5 fish on iceand the swell started to pick up what a great day.

    cheers Clifford

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    East Of Browns

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    Hi to all headed out of sydney at 8 this morning and made our way out, dropped lures at the shelf and headed east of browns about 3 to 4 miles where we found a temp break.

    Started cubing about one and half hours in we hit our first fin for the day was a nice size about 30 odd kg :1prop: , kept the trail going till about 430 when we called it a day. With no swell the trip back was very quick.

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    Thanks Clifford

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    Unlucky Clifford, bit of a transition period at the moment, marlin are scarce and the yellowfin dont seem to have showed up in numbers. Was there much talk on the radio mate?

    Cheers,

    Daniel

    Not much talk pritty quiet hope the fin come in number this year.

    cheers clifford

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    Hi to all long time since i have been out but the weather fined up for to day, hit the boat ramp at 6 and made our way out to the shelf.We hit the shelf about 8 with the lures already down the water was very green so we dicided to head out wide , the teamp got to about 21.

    After a couple of hours we dicided to head to brouns where fello raider Dave was, about 1 mile from browns we had a free jumping marlin about 100m in front of us :1yikes: so we stayed around for a couple of laps with no results so we headed north to find better water.

    After a few more hours north with heaps of bait around and the shotty going off we stripes we dicided to head back in, it was a long day but was good just to get out.

    Cheers Clifford

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    Hi all headed out wide on sat hit 12 mile about 7 and dropped lures when we hit the shelf we had our first hit with a couple of little dollies all about 40 to 70 cm all went back but one that the hook went threw its gills.

    Dropped lures again and started heading northabout an hour or two we had the shot gun and riggers went off again some more little dollies. After about an hour we had 50 on the corner took off then stopped we suspected it was a dollie but we did not see it. We trolled for the rest of the day and had no action but what a day out great weather.

    Cheers Clifford

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    Hi to all sorry about the late reply as i was away for work, ill start with my new approuch i have got ride of all 30 and only run 50w, i have removed my doc and run a daisy chain of little birds with a med bird on the back, i keep my two biggest lures up close to the boat and run smaller ones on riggers with a veriaty of colours from lumo,pink,blues and a black with orange. The one that got taken was the blue with pink under skert 9 inchs from head to skert. All rods have wind on leaders with 2 meter leaders on lures ,all knots retide before going out and drags checked.

    We hooked the marlin on a 50w 24kg, it spent about 5min putting on a show before going deep, where it spent most of its time and the size we estimated about 150kg and over, the measurement was 3.3 meters to end of bill.

    thanks Clifford

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    Hi to all did not make it to ps due to work comitments but got out on sat, left the boat ramp at 6 and made our way to 12 mile were we dropped our lures. We got to the shelf and started to zig zag, it was about 10 when i noticed that the right hand rod was bending but the rubber band for the outrigger was still attached i looked out back when i saw a marlin just take off the rod started to scream. I picked up the rod and held on as the marlin was putting on a great show for us, after about an 30 min in the fight we started to try and plain the fish as it was going down deep this went on for another hour our so. we got it boat side we found the hooks a fair way down it throat we managed to get it out but not much life. We tryed to revive it for about 10 min with no luck, dont know if we took to long getting the hooks out so we gaffed it and dragged it on bourd and made our way back in. When we hit the habour we called friends so no fish went to wast, sorry not alot of photos due to decky had problem with camrea.

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    Well Clifford

    Let me say the first thing for you to do is recheck that your drag settings on the reel are correct this is of vital importance

    to you even if you go to the extent of doing so before every trip.....

    i my self tend to go a bit over the 1/3 rd drag setting and am not advocating for you do likewise but

    more for the fact of illustrating the point of been confident in the tackle and knot's been used.....

    i have come to the conclusion and i know a lot of the boys will not necesseraly agree with me here

    but i see the conversation rate of hookup with marlin in trailer boats starting off in the early stages like yourself improve out of sight by useing a wind on leader .........

    it will give you so much more latitude at the buisness end from abrasion with the fish being from contact from tail kicks....bill swipes and the like

    as well as more protection from the fish landing on the wind on after jumping than as assaposed to the line

    keep your leader's to the lures around the 2 mtr mark allowing you to bring the fish alongside the boat for you

    to easily grab a hold of its bill for hook removal or take pic's etc...

    use one around the 250-300lb if need be......start off with outfit's on both your riggers and see how you fare...i bet if you do the above it will result in a totaly differant result....

    Clifford i doubt the marlin you mentioned tail wrapped itself or died but more likely to of had its head down and been stubborn

    this is were the drag setting is vital in helping maintain that constant pressure and after that amount of time

    differant tatics may have to be applied to get a better angle on the line the first most preffered choice is

    to drive off the fish and we are not talking 20 mtrs off it........it can take what seems a hell ov a lot of the spool to get the angle to flatten out and can quite often take repeated go's at times....last week i fought a blue marlin on 37kg stand up on sunset for an hour and a half doing just that to try and subdue him

    with the leader eventually giving out in the end....

    keep at it.... and if you do go up to port PM me and i will give you the marks to were it's happening presently

    there's sure enough action around to keep you on your tippy toes.....

    Cheers Warnie...

    Thanks for that Warnie ill try driving off the marlin alot futher next time as we tried it a few times but not that far, more worried about the spool. I have got in the practice of retieing all my riggs, checking my lures and wind on leaders i think i should have taken your advice earler and got rid of the tld 30, not any more ive just orderd a tld 50 to put in its place.

    Ill send you a pm this week if weather is good that would be fantastic.

    Thanks Clifford

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